The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical SciencesDavid C. Lindberg, Mary Jo Nye, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and comprehensive insights into developments in the public culture, disciplinary organization, and cognitive content of the physical and mathematical sciences. |
Contents
The Modern Physical and Mathematical | 1 |
33 | 8 |
Models for | 21 |
Intersections of Physical Science and Western Religion | 36 |
Women in the Physical Sciences in | 54 |
Popularization of Science | 72 |
The Church Scientific | 78 |
A Second Culture? | 85 |
Electrical Theory and Practice in | 311 |
Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure 19001927 | 331 |
Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics | 350 |
From QED to the Standard | 375 |
Chemical Physics and Quantum Chemistry in | 394 |
Plasmas and SolidState Science | 413 |
Their Structures and Functions | 429 |
MATHEMATICS ASTRONOMY | 447 |
Literature and the Modern Physical Sciences | 91 |
Mathematical Schools Communities and Networks | 113 |
The Industry Research and Education Nexus | 133 |
Instruments and Practice | 154 |
Languages in Chemistry | 174 |
ΙΟ Imagery and Representation in TwentiethCentury | 191 |
The Physical Sciences in the Life Sciences | 219 |
Chemical Atomism and Chemical Classification | 237 |
The Theory of Chemical Structure and Its Applications | 255 |
Theories and Experiments on Radiation from Thomas | 272 |
IS Force Energy and Thermodynamics | 289 |
Developments | 468 |
Statistics and Physical Theories | 488 |
Solar Science and Astrophysics | 505 |
Cosmologies and Cosmogonies of Space and Time | 522 |
The Physics and Chemistry of the Earth | 538 |
Science Technology and War | 561 |
Physics in | 579 |
Computer Science and the Computer Revolution | 598 |
of Science | 634 |
651 | |
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